Ruggiero Ricci - Complete Decca Recordings
Limited edition 20CD set
The most complete tribute ever issued to the fiendish fingers and sublime artistry of a true virtuoso, Ruggiero Ricci - a feast of concerto, solo and recital repertoire recorded by Ricci, collected together for the first time, and including a previously unpublished set of the Brahms Violin Sonatas. This 20CD Limited Edition boxset complete with original jackets is divided into three sections: Violin and Orchestra; Solo Violin; Violin and Piano.
Praised for his ‘natural elegance’ (Gramophone), ‘finesse and astute interpretative insight’ (American Record Guide), ‘faultlessly brilliant technique’ and ‘astonishingly assured combination of virtuosity and poetic sensibility’ (High Fidelity), RUGGIERO RICCI made recordings for Decca from 1950 to 1974. This tribute to the fiendish fingers and sublime artistry of a true virtuoso collects together his complete recordings for the British label – concertos, solo violin works, encore pieces and sonatas, including a previously unpublished set of the Brahms Violin Sonatas with Julius Katchen recorded in 1954. By way of bonus, the set also includes excerpts from the Fistoulari recording of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake where Ricci plays the violin solos, as well as Ansermet’s complete performances of the composer’s Suites Nos. 3 and 4, both of whose obbligato violin parts are performed by the violinist.
An Original Jackets Limited Edition.
TRACK LIST
CD 1
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
Sir Adrian Boult · Sir Malcolm Sargent
CD 2
PAGANINI Violin Concerto Nos. 1 & 2
RAVEL Tzigane
Anthony Collins · Ernest Ansermet
CD 3
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Sérénade mélancolique; Scherzo
KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto
Oivin Fjeldstad ∙ Anatole Fistoulari
CD 4
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
Piero Gamba
CD 5
PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Ernest Ansermet
CD 6
LALO Symphone espagnole
SARASATE Carmen Fantaisie; Zigeunerweisen
SAINT-SAËNS Havanaise; Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso
Ernest Ansermet ∙ Piero Gamba
CD 7
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto
Sir Malcolm Sargent
CD 8
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto; Swan Lake (excerpts)
Jean Fournet · Anatole Fistoulari
CD 9
TCHAIKOVSKY Suites Nos. 3 & 4
Ernest Ansermet
CD 10
PAGANINI Caprices (1950 Recording)
CD 11
PAGANINI Caprices (1959 Recording)
CD 12
WORKS FOR SOLO VIOLIN
Bartók ∙ Stravinsky · Prokofiev ∙ Hindemith
CD 13
J.S. BACH Sonata No. 1; Partita No. 2
WEBER Six Sonates Progressives
Carlo Bussotti
CD 14
R. STRAUSS Violin Sonata
PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No. 2
Carlo Bussotti
CD 15
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos. 7 & 10
Friedrich Gulda
CD 16
BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–3 (1954 Recording)
Julius Katchen
PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED
CD 17
BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 (1957 Recording)
Julius Katchen
CD 18
SARASATE Danzas Españolas
Louis Persinger
CD 19
A PAGANINI RECITAL
Louis Persinger
CD 20
VIRTUOSO SHOWPIECES
Ernest Lush
RUGGIERO RICCI, violin
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Eloquence 20CD Set
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